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I have a Mac Mini with a single firewire port. That was fine for a while with just the iSight webcamera. Now, in addition I have a Western Digital external harddrive that I want to use for Time Machine, so have a need for a firewire hub.

which would work for a while, but would stop working every so often. A power off and on of the Mac Mini was required to revive it. I got a replacement but it was no better. Belkin customer support were useless in answering power output per port. So, I returned it.

I'm guessing the hub is under powered to support both the camera and the external harddrive.

Does anyone has good experience with a particular brand of firewire hubs?

Aloha,
I have a Trendnet hub. It has 4 USB and 3 Firewire ports. I have every port in use. I also have firewire drives daisy chained and on the end of chain I have my HD video camera for importing. Never have had any problems.

To offer a contrary opinion, I have been using a powered Belkin 6 port Firewire hub for over two years now with no issues whatsoever. Mine LOOKS identical to the one in your link. Perhaps you just got a bad unit?